Cisco :: 2504 Upgrading / Growing Our Wi-Fi Network
Sep 5, 2012
We are planning for a modest expansion of our wifi network. Here is what we currently have, and what we are doing:
-2 1100 B/G AP's; a "primary" and a repeater. Both have a single SSID.
-1 1142 B/G/N; autonomous, with a different SSID
What we would like to do:
-Purchase a 2504 WLC and two more AP. Looking at a 3602 simply for future growth, but are not sold on the idea of such an AP. Would consider two more 1142. At any rate, we are looking for two more AP.
-Still keep our current AP's in use.
-Is a 5 access point wifi network, all controlled by a 2504 feasible?
-Will our existing investment of older 1100's and the single 1142 play nice with eiither a pair of 3600 (or 3500 or even 1142)?
-Can we go to a single SSID using all of this equipment, and clients connect at whatever speed is possible with whatever AP they are joined with?
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Nov 11, 2012
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Oct 8, 2011
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Mar 9, 2013
We are upgrading a customer network and have found that users of a particular application [which is very bursty/bandwidth hungry] have experienced a marked performance drop. I see lots of output drops on the interfaces. This is only happening on 2960S-48 the rest of the users on 2960PSTL [all PoE] are not having nearly as bad a time.I have tried various QoS configs with little success. I have seen on some other blogs that the 2960S has less buffers than the rest of the family.
Removing QoS or upping the users to 1Gb cures the performance problem.
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Aug 15, 2012
I have two WLC 2504 controllers. These controllers are for two different buildings. But they share a VLAN, and network address range. How can I control the access points to the register selected only at a specific controller.
Example:
AP 1 -> WLC 1
AP 2 -> WLC 2
AP 3 -> WLC 1
Since the buildings also broadcast in different SSID. The two controllers are in a mobility group.
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Feb 27, 2013
I have a two year old Dell, an XPS Q740 (from the system info) Intel i7 CPU. Works fine but I've recently upgraded my router to an N standard with dual channels operating at 2.4ghz and 5ghz, so I'd like to improve the the network options for my machine. Looking at the device manager, it says I'm using an Intel WiFi link BGN 1000 which operates at 2.4ghz.
What card if any I can install to bring about a speed improvement. Fiber broadband is also due in my area soon so I want to take advantage of this.
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Oct 2, 2011
I am new in networking. All my knowledge is based on books and no real life experience.At my job I am required to set up the network and configure all apparatus I never worked,before with.We have regular cable internet in the office. Modem is connected to Apple router (time capsule). No trouble. Now we are getting fibre optic in the office. Mngmnt has abought the following Cisco:
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Jan 21, 2013
I have a 2504 WLC with a 1042 AP and I have it placed on my edge Cisco 3750 switch. I have the management interface of the WLC set on my WAN IP 71.x.x.x subnet range, and I have the WLC doing DHCP duties with a DHCP scope of 192.168.X.0. I have my DNS servers set on external DNS servers out on the Internet.I have two Cisco 3845 Routers on my edge network - one for each ISP with BGP protocol.
Since my native VLAN is 71.x.x.x, I added a sub interface on my main core router and gave it a 192.168.x.1 255.255.255.0 address for the gateway. Also, I added ip prefix-list iBGP seq 10 permit 192.168.x.0/24 le 32 to my main core router. On my secondary ISP router I added ip prefix-list iBGP seq 10 permit 192.168.X.0/24 le 32, and ip prefix-list OUT seq 10 permit 192.168.x.0/24 statements.
I added VLAN 10 to my edge switch and gave it IP 192.168.x.2 255.255.255.0, and the switchports that my core router and my WLC are connected to the edge switch, are in trunk mode with encapsulation dot1q 10. The switchport on my edge switch that the AP is connected to is in switchport access mode.
I can connect to the wifi with a 192.168.x.x IP address on my laptop, but I cannot get any Internet access. Is it possible to have the DHCP scope be in a different subnet than my WAN IP subnet, and allow guests to get to the external Internet only? Do I need to put the WLC somewhere internal on my network i.e. the DMZ and then tunnel the traffic out to the Internet with no Internal network access?
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Mar 21, 2011
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May 29, 2013
i must configure a secured wireless network with access restriction based on SSID. the equipements are : cisco wlc 2504 (soft 7.3) cisco secure acs aplliance 1121 (soft 5.4) . the users that will connect to the network are regrouped by identity groups, each identity group having it's own SSID. Clearly each group of users must access only one SSID. i followed the procedure below to configure it:
-- creating user identity groups;
-- creating users and assigning them to the groups;
--- creating authorization profiles for each SSID under policy element/ authorization and permission/network access/authorization profiles and putting the Airespace-Wlan-Id(the SSID number) in the radius tab.
--- assigning the authorization profiles to the identity groups under access policies.
after all these config the users can access the network using there userid/password configured. But the problem is Every user can access every SSID, seems like the restriction is so not very well configured.
i found some documentation on this kind of config but the version of ACS used seems older than the one that i use, so menu are very different.
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Nov 29, 2012
Our current way of configuration for this is standalone ap's with multiple ssid's. The main network ssid's are on the 10.0.0.0 networks. The internet only ssid is on the 192.168.1.0 network. ( this is a wireless network only,no wired) They all get there dhcp address from a layer 3 switch. To prevent the wireless 192.168.1.0 intenet only network from getting to the 10.0.0.0 networks, we just put a simple source & destination deny acl on the in vlan interface of the 192.168.1.0 network on the layer 3 switch.Now that we are impementing a Cisco 2504 controller, the management and ap manger are both on the 10.0.0.0 network.( both on port 1 with dynamic ap manager enabled) I can setup as many ssid's on the 10.0.0.0 network and they all work fine. But when I setup the 192.168.1.0 internet only ssid it will not connect. I'm assuming that its because the 192.168.1.0 network or anyone trying to connect and use that network has to go through the controller located on the 10.0.0.0 network. I'm thinking that the acl on the vlan interafce is the problem.So, if I'm correct, what is the best way to setup a separate internet only network through the private networks?
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Nov 19, 2012
I have a 2504 WLC and x6 1142 AP's and currently have this working on our corporate network (still in test phase). So far so good and looking at authentication via radius next for this.
We have a separate ADSL connection that is external to the corporate network and what i would like to do is based on SSID (in this case i'll use "Guest Access") i would like any clients etc that visit to be able to connect to our wireless but not be able to connect to our corporate network.
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Mar 2, 2012
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Jan 28, 2013
I recently got my Cisco wireless system working a few days ago and am back with a guest network. Our wireless system includes one 2504 controller and 2 2602i access points. So, I want a wireless guest network completely isolated from the LAN.
Here is what I have done.
I have created a new internal network and assigned 192.168.2.1 to an unused port on the firewall and 2.2 to a new controller interface with vlan 10. I can ping both 2.1 and 2.2 from the firewall and the controller. Basic network connectivity is working. The DHCP server is setup on this same firewall and configured only for this port. This address is referenced in the controllers interface.
A new w lan was setup and enabled. The proper interface group was selected on the w lan. I have left the default layer2 security.
As far as AAA servers tab in this wlan, this is where I am a little confused. I wish to just have a single log in for this guest network. I wasn't sure what to do so I went over to the Security tab and created a "local net users" account. I do not know how to reference the use of this under wlan, security, aaa servers. Should I check the box that says "local eap authentication"?? If so, I don't have a profile name in the drop down. What I'm looking for is the username/password to be stored locally on the controller itself since there will be only 1 account.
Under wlan, advanced tab, I do not have "Allow AAA override" checked. Should I?
Lastly, when I try to connect the client, it is not pulling a dhcp address. I wasn't sure if authentication was required before dhcp or the other way around so I'm not sure what to trouble shoot first, authentication or dhcp.
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Jul 25, 2012
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Apr 7, 2013
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